The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
  

  email
  

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• What's your email setup?
  

  ask email
  

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• Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions
  

  netbsd
  

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• One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022)
  

  historical scaling
  

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• Rust 1.93 performance improvements in format! and friends
  

  rust
  

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• Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons
  

  mac
  

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• Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The largest number representable in 64 bits
  

  math plt
  

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• The Retro Web
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
  

  law privacy security
  

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• Plasma Effect
  

  graphics
  

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• Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility
  

  rust unix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
  

  distributed rant vibecoding
  

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• But how to get to that European cloud?
  

  law philosophy
  

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• Xfwl4: The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
  

  linux rust
  

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• Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
  

  games graphics
  

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• Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs
  

  browsers web
  

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• Bugs Apple Loves
  

  mac
  

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• I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software
  

  law programming
  

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• Microsoft obeys court orders to provide Windows BitLocker recovery keys
  

  cryptography security windows
  

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• Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026)
  

  nix python vibecoding
  

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• t: a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq
  

  unix vibecoding
  

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• Nixtamal: Fulfilling, Pure Input Pinning for Nix
  

  show nix
  

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• Blocking Claude
  

  networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• &&&&&&&&&&&&&&str
  

  performance rust
  

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• European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
  

  law
  

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• jujutsu v0.37.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• A data model for Git
  

  vcs
  

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• Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
  

  hardware
  

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• How Terminals Work
  

  unix
  

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• Celeste & TowerFall Physics
  

  games
  

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• I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine)
  

  devops
  

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• jxl-rs merged into Chromium
  

  browsers
  

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• I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)
  

  video games
  

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• HTML parsers in Portland
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Clang Hardening Cheat Sheet - Ten Years Later
  

  c++ compilers security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
  

  linux
  

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• Assorted less(1) tips
  

  unix
  

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• Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages
  

  compilers plt
  

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• which programming resource changed your career?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy
  

  editors emacs
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust windows
  

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• 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
  

  finance python
  

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• xcc700: mini C compiler for esp32
  

  c compilers
  

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• Darktable Styles mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations
  

  graphics
  

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• Releasing Fjall 3.0
  

  databases release
  

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• Email Privacy Tester
  

  email privacy
  

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• hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I canceled my programming book deal
  

  person
  

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• corroded: Illegal rust
  

  rust satire
  

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• One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
  

  finance python
  

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• How do you secure access to your self-hosted/homelab services?
  

  ask devops
  

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• Writing Windows 95 software in 2025
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad
  

  historical unix
  

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• What are you planning to learn in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• 2025: The year in LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released
  

  c release
  

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• Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
  

  c++
  

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• Statically Linking PipeWire
  

  linux
  

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• Why Object of Arrays (SoA pattern) beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance rabbit hole
  

  javascript performance
  

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